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Battle of Baia

The Battle of Baia was a night battle fought on 14/15 December 1467 at Baia in Moldavia, where Stephen the Great defeated the invading army of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.

Battle of Baideng

The Battle of Baideng (白登之围), or Siege of Pingcheng, was a 200 BCE battle in which Han founder Liu Bang was surrounded for seven days by Xiongnu cavalry.

Battle of Baidoa

The Battle of Baidoa, fought from 20 December 2006 around Baidoa, Somalia, pitted Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian forces against the advancing Islamic Courts Union.

Battle of Bakhmut (Битва за Бахмут)

Battle of Bakhmut (Битва за Бахмут): longest, bloodiest battle of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fought 2022 to May 2023 in Donetsk region; Wagner Group led the assault; Russia captured the ruined city of about 70,000 at heavy cost.

Battle of Baku

Battle of Baku (Bakı döyüşü, Bakü Muharebesi), August-September 1918: Nuri Pasha's Ottoman-Azerbaijani Caucasus Islamic Army captured Baku's oil city from Dunsterforce and local defenders on 15 September 1918, before the Mudros Armistice reversed the outcome.

Battle of Balaclava

Battle of Balaclava (Balaklava), 25 October 1854, Crimean War battle: Liprandi's ~25,000 Russians attacked the British supply port, featuring the Thin Red Line, Scarlett's Heavy Brigade charge, and the Light Brigade blunder; stalemate.

Battle of Balanguingui

The Battle of Balanguingui was an amphibious assault by Spanish forces in February 1848, capturing four fortresses on a Moro pirate stronghold in the Sulu Archipelago.

Battle of Balikpapan (1945)

The Battle of Balikpapan, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, was an amphibious assault by the Australian 7th Division on the Japanese-held oil port of Balikpapan in Dutch Borneo on 1 July 1945.

Battle of Balkh (900)

The Battle of Balkh (900) was fought near Balkh in Khurasan between the Saffarid amir Amr ibn al-Layth and the Samanid ruler Isma'il ibn Ahmad, who captured Amr.

Battle of Baltimore

Battle of Baltimore: September 12-14, 1814, War of 1812 engagement where US militia at North Point and Fort McHenry's 25-hour-bombarded garrison repelled the British Chesapeake Campaign, inspiring Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner.

Battle of Bamber Bridge

Battle of Bamber Bridge: June 24-25, 1943 racial mutiny in Lancashire, England, where Black troops of the 1511st Quartermaster Truck Regiment fought white U.S. MPs; Private William Crossland killed, 32 convicted, locals sided with the soldiers.

Battle of Bang Bo

The Battle of Bang Bo, known in China as the Battle of Zhennan Pass (镇南关之役), was a March 1885 victory of a Chinese army over French forces on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.

Battle of Bangkusay

The Battle of Bangkusay (Labanan sa Ilog Bangkusay) was a naval battle of June 3, 1571, in which Spanish forces under Legazpi defeated about 2,000 Kapampangan warriors in Manila Bay.

Battle of Bangui (2013)

The Battle of Bangui was fought from 22 to 24 March 2013, when about 200 South African soldiers engaged advancing Séléka rebels in Bangui, the Central African Republic's capital.

Battle of Bani Walid

The Battle of Bani Walid (معركة بني وليد) was a 2011 fight for control of the Libyan town of Bani Walid between National Transitional Council forces and Gaddafi loyalists.

Battle of Banja Luka

The Battle of Banja Luka, fought on 4 August 1737, saw Bosnian governor Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha defeat an Austrian army besieging Banja Luka in Ottoman Bosnia.

Battle of Bannockburn

Battle of Bannockburn, 23–24 June 1314 near Stirling: Robert the Bruce's Scottish spearmen in schiltrons defeated Edward II's larger English army, securing Bruce's control of Scotland; full recognition came with the 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.

Battle of Bantama

The Battle of Bantama was fighting in the Third Anglo-Asante War of 1873–1874 at Bantama, a district of Kumasi, Ghana, that housed the Asante royal mausoleum.

Battle of Bapheus

The Battle of Bapheus (Bafeus Muharebesi) was fought on 27 July 1302 near Nicomedia in Bithynia, where Osman I's Ottomans defeated a Byzantine relief army under George Mouzalon.

Battle of Bárbula

The Battle of Bárbula was an engagement fought near Naguanagua, in present-day Carabobo state, Venezuela, on 30 September 1813, in which Bolívar's patriots defeated the royalist vanguard.

Battle of Bardia

The Battle of Bardia was a January 1941 assault in which the Australian 6th Division captured the fortified Italian harbor town of Bardia in Libya, taking about 40,000 prisoners.

Battle of Basian

The Battle of Basian (Georgian: ბასიანის ბრძოლა), fought around 1202 in the Basian valley near Erzurum, saw Queen Tamar's Georgia, led by David Soslan, decisively defeat the Sultanate of Rum.

Battle of Bataan

Battle of Bataan (7 January–9 April 1942): US-Filipino defense of the Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, under War Plan Orange-3 against Japan's 14th Army; ended in the largest US Army surrender, about 76,000 troops, followed by the Bataan Death March.

Battle of Batih

The Battle of Batih, also called the battle of Batoh, was a 1652 victory of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-Tatar army, which destroyed a Polish Crown army near the Southern Bug.

Battle of Batina

The Battle of Batina was an Allied victory fought from 11 to 29 November 1944 at Batina in Baranja, on the Danube, opening the way to Budapest.

Battle of Batu Sawar

The Battle of Batu Sawar refers to Portuguese attacks on Batu Sawar, the upstream capital of the Johor Sultanate on the Johor River, most directly around 1607.

Battle of Bautzen (1945)

The Battle of Bautzen in April 1945 was one of the last battles of the Eastern Front, where German forces counterattacked the Polish 2nd Army near Bautzen.

Battle of Bayan

The Battle of Bayan, remembered by the Maranao as Padang Karbala, was a 1902 battle at Bayang on Lake Lanao, Mindanao, the first deadly clash between the US Army and the Maranao Moros.

Battle of Bear Paw

The Battle of Bear Paw was the final battle of the Nez Perce Flight of 1877, fought along Snake Creek in the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana.

Battle of Beaver Dams

The Battle of Beaver Dams was a War of 1812 engagement fought on 24 June 1813 near Thorold, Ontario, where Indigenous warriors forced an American column to surrender.